Vicki

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”
― Voltaire

“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch